angara centre - inaugural conference on globalization and growth

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Inaugural Conference on

Globalization, Innovation

and Economic Growth

August 3, 2012, 9:00am to 4:30pm

Luzon Ballroom, Softel, Pasay City

in cooperation with:


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P R O G R A M

Registraon

Opening RemarksHon. Albert F. Del Rosario

Secretary, Department of Foreign Aairs (DFA)

Introducon of the Angara Centreand Conference FormatDr. John V.C. Nye

Frederic Basat Chair in Polical Economy, Mercatus Center,George Mason University (USA)

Execuve Director, Angara Centre

Introducon of Plenary Speaker by Dr. John V.C. Nye

Plenary AddressDr. Tyler Cowen

Holbert C. Harris Chair of Economics and General Director of theMercatus Center, George Mason University (USA)Columnist (Economics Scene), New York Times

Health Break

Experts Panel 1:Human Capital, Social Capital, and InstuonsProf. John NyeFrederic Basat Chair in Polical Economy, Mercatus Center,George Mason University (USA)

Social Inuences on Individual CorruponProf. Alberto Simpser

Department of Polical Science, University of Chicago (USA)

Instuonal Foundaons of Impersonal Exchange: Theory andPolicy of Contractual RegistriesProf. Benito ArruadaDepartment of Economics and Business, Pompeu Fabra University(Spain)

08:45 - 09:00 am

09:00 - 09:30 am

09:30 - 09:35 am

09:35 - 10:05 am

10:05 - 10:30 am

10:30 - 11:30 am


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P R O G R A M

Health Break

Foreign and Local Experts Roundtable 2: Internaonal DisputeResoluon and Current Issues in Trade and InvestmentModerator: Ay. Raul Pangalangan, former Dean, UP College ofLaw

Prof. Tom GinsburgDr. Yas BanifatemiDr. J. Romesh WeeramantryDr. Nils Eliasson

Ms. Chiann BaoProf. Je WaincymerAy. Victor P. Lazan - President, Philippine Dispute ResoluonCentre Inc. (PDRCI), and Senior Partner of ACCRALAWDr. Diane Desierto (JSD, LLM, Yale) - Assistant Professor, PekingUniversity School of Transnaonal Law and Ligaon Partner,DAPD LawAy. Susan Villanueva Senior Partner, Carpio Villaraza & Cruz LawOces and Professor, UP College of Law

Synthesis and Closing Remarks by Dr. John V.C. Nye

02:45 - 03:00 pm

03:00 04:00 pm

04:00 04:30 pm

Host: Ms. Cheche Lazaro


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Angara Centre for Law and Economics

The Angara Centre for Law and Economics (Angara Centre) is the rst and only Philippine policy andacademic think-tank that is dedicated to the scienc analysis and internaonal assessment of Philippine

and regional legislaon, policies, and public sector programs. It aims to provide independent research, of

an internaonally veriable academic standard and publishable scholarly quality, on the basis of which it

submits mely and relevant policy recommendaons for Philippine government, oriented towards:

Strengthening the rule of law and the quality of macroeconomic decisionmaking in the Philippines

Promong Filipinos economic development and their informed parcipaon in democrac

instuons, and

Aiding the Philippines towards full compliance with internaonal commitments, while assisng its

leadership of, and cooperaon with, regional iniaves and instuons for governance

It hopes to professionalize the science of government legislaon and policymaking, by drawing from the best

of the growing ranks of internaonally trained Philippine scholars, and enabling them to connue academic

and policy research according to the rigors of internaonal standards. It is also commied to welcoming

and encouraging the scienc and scholarly contribuons of Filipinos around the world who have excelled

in their respecve academic elds and disciplines and who intend to devote their intellectual abilies and

achievements to construcve policy, legal, and economic reforms for the Philippines.

The Angara Centre honors the legacy of public reform, technocrac experse, and patrioc leadership of

Senator Edgardo J. Angara by creang an enduring instuonal and pluralist haven for the Philippines best

and brightest from key academic disciplines all over the world, working together to devise the best feasible

soluons for Philippine economic progress, democrac development, and polical- legal reforms.

SENATOR EDGARDO J. ANGARAis the longest serving Senator

of the Post-EDSA Senate. Throughout his long and storied careeras a legislator, he advocated and spearheaded the passage

of landmark legislaon on agriculture, educaon, health,

arts and culture, science and technology, good governance,

nancial reforms, and social welfare. Angara is best known as

the Philippines Public Reformer, widely credited with having

brought technocrac experse to bear upon the formulaon of

mely and relevant Philippine legislaon.


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PLENARY SPEAKER

TYLER COWEN

Holbert C. Harris Chair of Economics and

General Director of the Mercatus Center,George Mason University (USA)

Columnist (Economics Scene), New York Times

Tyler Cowen is the general director of the Mercatus Center at GeorgeMason University and the Holbert C. Harris Chair of Economics at GeorgeMason University. He also serves on the Mercatus Centers board of directors.

He studied economics at George Mason University and earned his PhD from

Harvard University in 1987.

He worked unl 1989 as an assistant and associate professor of economicsat the University of California, Irvine, and then returned to George Mason University. In 1998, he was named

general director of both the Mercatus Center and the James M. Buchanan Center for Polical Economy. In

2000, Dr. Cowen was named the Holbert C. Harris Chair of Economics.

A dedicated writer and translator of economic ideas who oen delves into the economics of culture, Dr. Cowen

has published dozens of books, reviews, and arcles. Cowens most recent book, The Great Stagnaon: How

America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Beer has been declared, the most

debated noncon book so far this year, by columnist David Brooks in 2011. His other recent books include

Create Your Own Economyand Discover Your Inner Economist, as well as a co-authored textbook series from

Worth Publishers: Modern Principles of Economics, Modern Principles of Economics: Macroeconomics, and

Modern Principles of Economics: Microeconomics. He contributes frequently to The New York Times and

Moneyand serves on the on the advisory boards of both Wilson Quarterly andAmerican Interest.

Dr. Cowen is also the author of Good & Plenty: The Creave Successes of American Arts Funding (2006);

Markets and Culture Voices: Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of the Mexican Amate Painters(2005); Creave

Destrucon: How Globalizaon is Changing the Worlds Cultures(2002); What Price Fame?(2000); andIn

Praise of Commercial Culture(1998). He co-authoredExploraons in the New Monetary Economics (1994)

with Randall Kroszner. Dr. Cowen has edited mulple works, including Public Goods and Market Failures,

Economic Welfare, and New Theories of Market Failure.


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MORNING PANELISTS

JOHN V.C. NYE

Frederic Basat Chair in Polical Economy,

Mercatus Center, George Mason University (USA)

Execuve Director, Angara Centre

John Nye holds the Frederic Basat Chair in Polical Economy at the

Mercatus Center at George Mason University and is Research Director

at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow. His primary research

interests include European economic history and new instuonal

economics.

Dr. Nye was a founding member of the Internaonal Society for the NewInstuonal Economics and has been on the editorial board of the Journal of Economic History. He was co-

editor of Froners in the New Instuonal Economics. His arcles have been published in a variety of journals.

In 1997, he was a Naonal Fellow at the Hoover Instuon at Stanford University. In 2003, Dr. Nye received

the ArtSci Council Faculty Teaching Award. His current projects include research into the Anglo-French wine

trade, the polical economy of state intervenon in trade, and detecng collusion in championship chess.

Recent publicaons include Did the Soviets Collude?: A Stascal Analysis of Championship Chess 1940-

78 with Charles Moul, in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organizaon, 2008. His current projects

include research into the Anglo-French wine trade, the polical economy of policy reform, and collusion in

internaonal sporng tournaments. His book, War, Wine, and Taxes: The Polical Economy of Anglo-French

Trade1689-1900 was published in 2007 from Princeton University Press. Dr. Nye received his B.S. from the

California Instute of Technology and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University.

Dr. Nye is Execuve Director of the Angara Centre.

ALBERTO SIMPSER

Professor

Department of Polical Science, University of Chicago (USA)

Alberto Simpser is currently Assistant Professor at the Department

of Polical Science in the University of Chicago. Simpser teaches

several doctorate and undergraduate courses on polical economy of

development. He recently wrote More than Winning: Why Pares and

Governments Manipulate Elecons, a comparave study of the incenves

underpinning electoral manipulaon around the world.


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Professor Simpser holds a masteral and doctoral degree from Stanford University in Economics and Polical

Science respecvely. His undergraduate course was Engineering Sciences in Harvard University.

He is also a member of the American Polical Science Associaon, Midwest Polical Science Associaon,

American Economic Associaon, and Internaonal Society for New Instuonal Economics and Lan American

Studies Associaon.

BENITO ARRUNADA

President

Smartmac Asia Pacic

Benito Arruada is a professor of Business Organizaon at the Departmentof Economics and Business at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Aer

graduang from the universies of Oviedo and Rochester, he held posions

at the Universies of Oviedo and Len, and was John M. Olin Vising Scholar

in Law and Economics at Harvard Law School. He has also taught at the

Universies of Paris and Autnoma de Madrid and Pablo de Olavide in Seville.

Arruada was a member of the founding board of directors and served as

President of the Internaonal Society for New Instuonal Economics from

2005 to 2006.

His current research aims to discover the organizaonal condions that

facilitate impersonal exchange, the best means for specializing resources and

speeding up economic growth. His recent work focuses on two main areas:

The impact of legal rules and instuons, including property rights and land tling, nancial auding and

compeon policy. He is also interested in the organizaon of specic sectors, including professional services,

franchising, public administraon, retailing, healthcare and subcontracng.

Prof. Arruadas publicaons include arcles in theJournal of Law and Economics, Journal of Law, Economics,

and Organizaon, Harvard Business Review, and Internaonal Review of Law and Economics,among others.

He is also the author of a dozen books, including The Economics of Audit Quality, Corporate Governance and

Regulaon, and Instuonal Foundaons of Impersonal Exchange: Theory and Policy of Contractual Registries(forthcoming in August 2012 with University of Chicago Press).


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LOCAL EXPERTS FOR THEROUNDTABLE PANEL

FELIPE MEDALLA

Dr. Felipe Medalla is currently Monetary Board Member, Bangko Sentral

ng Pilipinas. He was formerly Director General of the Naonal Economic

Development Authority (NEDA) and Secretary of Socio Economic Planning.

He also served as Dean of the School of Economics of the University of

the Philippines. He also held various important posions, among them,

Director of PNOC-Exploraon Corporaon, Chairman of the Foundaon for

Economic Freedom, and President of the Philippine Economics Society. He

has undergraduate degrees in Economics and Accounng from De La Salle

University, an MA in Economics from the University of the Philippines and a

Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University.

RAUL FABELLA

A three-term Dean of the School of Economics of the University of the

Philippines, Dr. Fabella is a Naonal Scienst and is a well-respected

economist who has contributed much to policy developments in the

country, parcularly in his research on the eect of weak state governance

on ecient policy making. He has also published extensively in leading

economic journals, among them, the Southern Economic Journal, Journal

of Internaonal Money and Finance, Internaonal Economic Review, Public

Choice and Journal of Public Economics. He earned his A.B. Philosophydegree at the Seminario Mayor-Recoletos, Baguio (1970) obtained his

M.A. in Economics at the UP School of Economics (1975) and his Ph.D. in

Economics at Yale University (1982).

AFTERNOON PANELISTS

TOM GINSBURG

Chair of Internaonal Law

University of Chicago Law School

Prof. Tom Ginsburg is Leo Spitz Chair of Internaonal Lawat the University of Chicago Law School. He focuses oncomparave and internaonal law from an interdisciplinary

perspecve. He holds BA, JD, and PhD degrees from the

University of California at Berkeley. One of his books, Judicial

Review in New Democracies (Cambridge University Press 2003)

won the C. Herman Pritche Award from the American Polical

Science Associaon for best book on law and courts.


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He has served as a vising professor at the University of Tokyo, Kyushu University, Seoul Naonal University,

the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Trento.

He currently co-directs the Comparave Constuons Project, an eort funded by the Naonal Science

Foundaon to gather and analyze the constuons of all independent naon-states since 1789. Before

entering law teaching, he served as a legal adviser at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, The Hague, Netherlands,

and consulted with numerous internaonal development agencies and foreign governments on legal and

constuonal reform.

YAS BANIFATEMI

Partner

Shearman & Sterlings Intl Arbitraon Group

Dr. Yas Banifatemi is Partner at Shearman & Sterlings Internaonal

Arbitraon Group and leads the rms Public Internaonal Law

Pracce Group. She advises and represents States, State-owned enes

and corporaons on both public internaonal law and internaonal

arbitraon issues. She has acted as counsel and arbitrator in arbitraon

cases under the ICSID, UNCITRAL, ICC, LCIA, SCC, CRCICA and Swiss

Arbitraon Rules, with parcular focus on internaonal investment, oil &

gas and general commercial maers.

Dr. Banifatemi has been praised as being a star performerand a brilliant lawyer with a sharp intellectinChambers Global. Clients have commented on the clarity of her opinions,describing her as a reliable and

robust advocatehaving a thorough understanding of the law she pracces.

She appears in the 45 Under 45 feature ofAmerican Lawyers January 2011issue, a global ranking of The

Best and the Brightestfemale lawyers under 45, and in the 45 Under 45 feature of Global Arbitraon

Reviews August 2011 issue, a global ranking of the leading gures of the internaonal arbitraon bar under

45.

Dr. Banifatemi holds an LLM from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D in Public Internaonal Law from the

University of Panthon-Assas (Paris II). She has authored, co-authored and co-edited numerous publicaons

on public internaonal law and internaonal arbitraon, both in French and in English. She regularly appearsas speaker and lecturer on issues of internaonal arbitraon as well as public internaonal law, including at

the Hague Academy of Internaonal Law.


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J. ROMESH WEERAMANTRY

Associate Professor,

City University of Hong Kong

Dr. J. Romesh Weeramantry (Phd, Queen Mary Univ. of London) is Associate

Professor at the City University of Hong Kong and commencing from Sept.

2012 at King & Wood Mallesons, Hong Kong. His professional experience includes

work in internaonal arbitraon, dispute resoluon and public internaonal

law at the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal, the United Naons Compensaon

Commission and at a leading Swiss law rm. He has also been an internaonal

law consultant to several internaonal organisaons.

His rst book Internaonal Commercial Arbitraon: An Asia-Pacic Perspecve (co-authored with Simon

Greenberg and Chris Kee) was published by Cambridge University Press in 2010. His other publicaons

include Treaty Interpretaon in Investment Arbitraon, Internaonal Commercial Arbitraon: An Asia-Pacic

Perspecve, and The Hong Kong Arbitraon Ordinance: Commentary and Annotaons.

NILS ELIASSON

Head

Dispute Resoluon Asia

D

r. Nils Eliasson is a Partner and Head of Dispute Resoluon Asia at Mannheimer

Swartling. He specializes in internaonal commercial and investment treatyarbitraon. He has acted as counsel in disputes encompassing energy, oil and

gas, infrastructure, engineering, license disputes, mergers and acquisions, real

estate, insurance, among others.

He is ranked in the Chambers and Partners Asia Pacic Guide 2012, Band 2

in the category Dispute Resoluon: Internaonal Arbitraon and is known for his solid and sophiscated

arbitraon pracce with a strong China focus. He has conducted arbitraons under the auspices of major

arbitraon instutes and has served as Legal Ocer of the United Naons Commission on Internaonal

Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

Dr. Eliasson holds a PhD in Law from the University of Lund. He is a known author and a frequent speaker oninternaonal arbitraon and investment law in Lund, Stockholm, and Hong Kong.


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AFTERNOON PANELISTS

CHIANN BAO

Secretary-General

Hongkong Internaonal Arbitraon Centre (HKIAC)

Ms. Chiann Bao is the Secretary-General of the Hong KongInternaonal Arbitraon Centre (HKIAC). As Secretary-General,she oversees the administraon of over 600 arbitraons, mediaons,

adjudicaons and other forms of dispute resoluon proceedings at the

HKIAC.

She is a Cornell University graduate and Fulbright Scholar in China. She

obtained a Juris Doctor from the University of Wisconsin Law School

and a Master of Arts in Arbitraon and Dispute Resoluon from the CityUniversity of Hong Kong. She is admied to the New York and Wisconsin

Bars.

Ms. Bao has worked with several internaonal law rms and clerked at

the ICC Internaonal Court of Arbitraon in Paris. She also worked with Neil Kaplan, CBE QC SBS in London as

an arbitraon assistant. She regularly speaks on internaonal arbitraon, with a focus on Asia.

JEFF WAINCYMER

Internaonal Trade Law ProfessorMonash University in Melbourne

Prof. Je Waincymer is an Internaonal Trade Law Professor at the MonashUniversity in Melbourne, Australia, and is currently non-government panelistfor the World Trade Organizaon in Australia.

He was also nominated as a panelist in Internaonal Centre for Selement of

Investment Disputes (ICSID), appointed as an arbitrator in the Internaonal

Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and co-convenor of the Internaonal Trade and

Business Interest Group of the Law Council of Australia.

He does research on internaonal trade law, arbitraon and taxaon. He

authored Mandatory Laws and Internaonal Arbitraon (Cambridge University Press), Procedure and

evidence in Internaonal Commercial Arbitraon, A Praccal Guide to Internaonal Commercial Arbitraon,

Human Rights Implicaons of Internaonal Trade Regulaon: A Crique of the World Trade, WTO Ligaon:

Procedural Aspects of Formal Dispute Selement, and Organizaons Impact on Human Rights Aainment

(ancipated publicaon 2013).

Professor Waincymer has 32 years of experience as academic and legal praconer in all aspects of

internaonal arbitraon, internaonal trade and investment, customs and commercial law.


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LOCAL EXPERTS FOR THEROUNDTABLE PANEL

VICTOR P. LAZATIN

Ay. Victor Lazan is currently President of the Philippine Dispute Resoluon

Centre Inc. (PDRCI). He is a Senior Partner of the Angara Abello Concepcion

Regala & Cruz Law Oces (ACCRALAW). He has also served as President of

the Philippine Bar Associaon, Independent Director of MJCI Investments

Corporaon, Vice Chairman of Philippine Bank of Communicaons Inc.,

and Director of the United Overseas Bank. He holds a Bachelor of Science

in A.B. Economics (1967) and Bachelor of Laws, Cum Laude (1971) from the

University of the Philippines, and a Masters of Law from the University of

Michigan (1974).

DIANE DESIERTO

Dr. Diane Desierto (JSD, LLM, Yale) is Assistant Professor at Peking University

School of Transnaonal Law (teaching foreign investment and internaonal

dispute resoluon, internaonal human rights and humanitarian law),

and Partner and Regional Consultant at DAPD Law Philippines (part-

me commercial appellate ligaon). Dr. Desierto frequently conducts

internaonal law training and technical assistance for Philippine government

counsels and agencies. Dr. Desierto lectures and publishes on internaonaltrade and investment law, internaonal dispute selement, and comparave

public law, including the book Necessity and Naonal Emergency Clauses:

Sovereignty in Modern Treaty Interpretaon (Internaonal Ligaon in

Pracce Vol. 3, Marnus Nijho 2012), which was awarded the Ambrose Gherini Prize in Internaonal Law.

She clerked at the Internaonal Court of Jusce for Judges Simma and Sepulveda-Amor, served as Editor at

the Yale Journal of Internaonal Law

and the Internaonal Journal of Dispute Prevenon and Resoluon, and served awarded internaonal law

fellowships at the Max Planck Instute in

Heidelberg and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, United States. She has presented and/or lectured

across instuons in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Dr. Desierto holds JSD (Doctor of the Science of

Law) and LLM (Master of Laws) degrees from Yale Law School, and from the University of the Philippines,

degrees in LLB (now renamed Juris Doctor) cum laudeandclass salutatorianand BSc Economics, summa cum

laudeand class valedictorian.


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ATTY. SUSAN VILLANUEVA

Susan Villanueva (LLM, Yale) is Senior Partner at the Carpio Villaraza & Cruz Law

Oces (CVC Law) and is Professor at the University of the Philippines College of Law.

She is founding President of the Intellectual Property Professors and Researchers

Organizaon of The Philippines (IP-PRO). She is also a member of the American

Bar Associaon and the New York Bar Associaon. Ay. Villanueva heads the CVC

Law Firms trade group pracce, tax ligaon pracce, and intellectual property

ligaon pracce.

Moderator (Session 1:)

Dr. Arensio Balisacan Director

General Naonal Economic

Development Authority

(NEDA)

Moderator (Session 2:)

Ay. Raul Pangalangan

Professor

College of Law University of

the Philippines

Host

Ms. Cheche Lazaro Founder

and President Probe

Producons

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